Question

I have a date/time string like this: 180510_112440 in this format ddmmyy_hhmmss
I need a snippet for having a string formatted like this way: 2010-05-18 11:24:40
Thanks for help.

Answer 1

another possible answer is the common use of strptime to parse your date and the mktime function:

<?php

$orig_date = "180510_112440";

// Parse our date in order to retrieve in an array date's day, month, etc.
$parsed_date = strptime($orig_date, "%d%m%y_%H%M%S");

// Make a unix timestamp of this parsed date:
$nice_date = mktime($parsed_date['tm_hour'],
                    $parsed_date['tm_min'],
                    $parsed_date['tm_sec'],
                    $parsed_date['tm_mon'] + 1,
                    $parsed_date['tm_mday'],
                    $parsed_date['tm_year'] + 1900);

// Verify the conversion:
echo $orig_date . "\n";
echo date('d/m/y H:i:s', $nice_date);